Intrusive memories can include flashbacks, or reliving the traumatic event for minutes or even days at a time as well as upsetting dreams about the traumatic event. Symptoms of avoidance and emotional numbing involve trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event, feeling emotionally numb, avoiding activities you once enjoyed, hopelessness about the future, memory problems, trouble concentrating, and difficulty maintaining close relationships. Often, a person with PTSD will change their entire outlook on life after a traumatic event. The symptoms of their PTSD will cause them to reevaluate their life, and often cause them to make irrational decisions based on fear of such an event occurring
Denial can make you feel numb and, while these emotions are not healthy in the long-term, they help you move forward in the days following death. Anger: Once your denial fades, it is typically replaced with anger. In this phase of the 5 stages of grief, it is typical to blame everyone else. You feel rage and anger for others that are still alive and ask yourself "Why me?" While the outward emotion experienced by those around you is anger, there is pain buried underneath the surface.
After months or even years of this deterioration, more obvious signs of disturbance such as delusional ideas or hallucinations, appear. In acute onset, obvious signs such as hallucinations can appear quite suddenly, usually after a stressful event, and the individual shows very disturbed behaviour within a few days. In terms of symptoms that are used in diagnosis and classification, there are positive symptoms, which reflect an excess or distortion of normal functions, hallucinations, delusions, experiences of control and disorganised thinking. There are also negative symptoms which in fact reflect a loss or reduction in normal functions e.g. alogia (the loss of fluent speech) avolition (the loss of motivation) and affective flattening (a reduction in the range of emotional intensity).
For someone experiencing depression, there is usually more than one cause. The causes are categorised by the following: * Genetics – Though depression is usually developed due to life experience, there is strong evidence that genetically, some people may be more prone than others. * Illness – Certain illnesses, particularly Cancers, can cause depression. * Ageing brain – Depression is easily developed in the elderly, this could be due to the pre stages of dementia, history of low blood pressure, or just the general slowing of brain function. * Stress – Stress plays a major part in the illness of depression, this can be the stress of loving a loved one, pressure at work or from family.
Candace Baird English 112 Candace Pomozzi 22 February 2013 Hidden Truths behind Zoloft Many adults, American or not, have experienced the sense of being depressed at least once or twice in his or her lifetime. Feeling depressed is a normal reaction to life’s obstacles, especially when things may have gone wrong; however, when the depression last for several weeks and is unbearable, that is when the depression turns into a serious medical condition and needs to be diagnosed by a doctor. The Zoloft commercial uses rhetoric appeals; appeal to logic, appeal to emotion, and a fallacy of presumption to persuade their audience into consuming the medication for those diagnosed with depression disorders. In the black and white animated cartoon commercial for the anti-depressant, Zoloft, a sad, upset, depressed ball is moving forward, as if it were dragging its’ feet, looking down at the ground. As the ball is moving forward sadly, the music in the commercial sets the mood along with the dark cloud hovering over the ball, wherever it may go.
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: An Assessment of the Complex, Unknown Disease Human beings are products of their own memories. It is what defines them and the legacy they leave behind. Even in times of utmost distress and despair, it is highly unlikely that a person would want to lose their memory. In fact, memory loss is one of the reasons why diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease are petrifying. The dismal thought of forgetting moments in one’s life and not be being able to provide for oneself are unbearable for most.
These emotions generally trigger grief and sadness they then grieve the declining of health and certainty in their lives (Gill, 2012). Greif is a term that comes from a heavy weight that has been put onto a person; it is one’s response both internally and externally to the influence of loss (Oxford English Dictionary, 1989, vol. 6, pp. 834-853). This emotion is usually maintained for a long or short period of time depending on the patient and can be considered a normal response to a reflective alteration in an their life.
Unresolved grief is generally grief which is either delayed and experienced long after the loss or distorted grief, in which the person may not feel emotions, but instead experiences other symptoms. Role disputes - Role disputes occur when the patient and significant people in his life have different expectations about their relationship. Role transitions - Depression may occur during life transitions when a person's role changes and he doesn't know how to cope with the change. Interpersonal deficits - This may be an area of focus if the patient has had problems with forming and maintaining good quality relationships. IPT was developed for the treatment of depression and its efficacy for this application is backed up by several large-scale randomized control trials.
Grieving is health, but often painful emotional reaction to loss. Abnormal grieving occurs when this reaction is prolonged, delayed or otherwise unresolved over a long period of time. Grieving is considered abnormal when it is accompanied by suicidal thoughts or if they are psychotic symptoms such as loss of contact with reality or they are significant weight gain or weight loss. Abnormal grieving is more likely to occur in difficult circumstances, for example when there are multiple losses within a short period of time. Delayed grief sometimes result in abnormal grieving.